Foods you can’t keep after their expiration date
While there are certain foods (like the ones we’ve listed in this article) you can safely consume past their ‘before’ date, there are others you should never put in your mouth after expiration. Foods like ground beef, ground pork, fish, strawberries, milk, home-made whipped cream, spinach, and oysters could cause food poisoning.
Toss these foods if they are expired! If not, you could end up in the emergency room with serious food poisoning as some may contain E. coli, Cryptosporidium, Bacillus cereus, Hepatitis A, Salmonella, or Vibrio vulnificus.
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Good information.
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Thank you for answering the questions about how long past the expiration date something can safely be consumed. My husband has been in a nursing home almost a year and I have been eating out or with friends and not cooked much. Almost everything I have been pulling out of the cabinet lately expired before Christmas and I have thrown away many cans and packages. I am going to make a concerted effort to use up what I have before I buy any more. Thanks again.
As a retired food inspector with NYS, I assure you all that expiration dates are merely guidelines and not something etched in stone — NY State does not even issue violations for foods past their dates — the thinking is simple: if a food does not look or smell spoiled it likely is still safe to eat. That doesn’t mean it’s not stale or less than 100 % of its original quality. There are exceptions, of course — milk and poultry tend to spoil quickly — canned and sealed shelf-stable foods can last years — my suggestion is to take each product individually and form your own evaluations.
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Thank you for the information. I knew about some facts and the others I was glad to find out about. Like the eggs.
When I buy sourdough bread Istore itin the freezer then when the bread box get’s down, to 3 slice I get anothe bag of frozen bread put down a dish towel an open the bag for it to thaw out the chldren would not eat the dounut holes if they were not frozen Dad
Thanks for these tips. They will be posted for family and friends, Tips are very appreciated and we are thankful for this notice.